Ontology-Driven Interoperability for Cultural Heritage Objects : Working Notes

Contents: Introduction CIDOC CRM and an Integrated Approach to Semantic Interoperability FRBR Ontology-driven Interoperability for MPEG-7 EDL Project: Challenges of Multilingual Access to Multilingual European Content Interoperability in the European Library Semantic Interoperability via Ontology Mapping Achieving Interoperability in the MichaelPlus Project Semantical Interoperability with IMAGINATION Content using Standardized Ontologies SKOS – Dutch Cultural Heritage Institution Thesaurus Conversion Use Case …

MTS Pilot tracking algorithm for “wow”distortion

New algorithm for detection of the wow distortion characteristic basing on the MTS pilot tracking is introduced. By observing a variation of the pilot frequency, the depth of the parasitic modulation can be estimated. MTS is an audio coding system used in an NTSC television standard, thus the algorithm is applicable only in that type of recordings. It is based …

Images of the Past. 7 years of Images for the Future

Over a period of seven years Sound and Vision, EYE Film Institute, the National Archives and Kennisland preserved over 90,000 hours of video, 20,000 hours of film, some 100,000 hours of audio and 2,500,000 photos. The digitised material is now being reused for numerous purposes, from learning material and Wikipedia to apps and services for the creative industry. Images for the …

Honderd jaar filmformaten/More than one hundred years of film sizes

Geïllustreerde informatie over de geschiedenis van filmformaten, filmprojectoren en filmcamera’s. Uitgebreide site van een privé-verzamelaar met veel foto’s van projectoren en camera’s en links naar gerelateerde informatie (leveranciers, oude handleidingen, FAQs etc.) Volgens de auteur zelf is de Engelse versie uitgebreider en actueler dan de Nederlandse.

GAMA : Gateway to Archives of Media Art

Contents: Home About GAMA Guided Tours On Media Art GAMA is a harvester targeted specifically towards media art. The gateway was launched in 2007 by 19 organisations from Europe’s culture, art and technology sector. They participated in the interdisciplinary project GAMA, supported by the European commission under the eContentPlus programme with 1.2 million Euro. The outcome of this project is a …

Telecine Field Dominance

This report addresses problems archives may encounter when they try to encode videotapes whose content originates from a telecine transfer of film originals. It focuses particularly on field synchronisation problems which can cause interlacing artefacts, discusses confusion over film dominance and suggests solutions. This is a technical paper targetting film transfer engineers as well as technical personnel involved in video …